Aliens (1986)
Ripley is the sole survivor of an alien attack, drifting in a space-pod for decades. She is eventually found, but her story is not believed. The planetoid is now a colony and her credentials have been stripped by a corporation that wants to keep the risks a secret. She is approached by Burke of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and Gorman of the space marines and is told that her status will be restored if she agrees to return as a consultant on the warship Sulaco. Upon landing, they find that the population has been completely wiped out, except for one child, Newt.
Books with substantial mentioning of Aliens
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Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven Amsterdam, 2014 |
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John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.) Fifty Key American Films London and New York, 2009 |
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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Jürgen Müller Die besten Filme der 80er Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005 |
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Roz Kaveney From Alien to the Matrix, Reading Science Fiction Film London - New York, 2005 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1987, A Survey of the Films of 1986 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987 pp. 64-69 
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Articles on Aliens
| Andrew McWhirter, Digital Media as Textual Theory, Audiovisual, pictorial and data analyses of Alien and Aliens, in: Luke Hockley (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of Jungian film studies, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2018 |
| Catherine Constable, Becoming the Monster's Mother: Morphologies of Identity in the Alien Series, in: Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone II, London - New York, 1999 |
| Adam Smith, Taming the Beast, The Making Of The Alien Saga, in: Empire, nr. 161, 2002 pp. 164-169 |
| Ian Nathan, "She would have liked a normal kind of life...", in: Empire, nr. 245 (November), 2009 pp. 124-129 |
Articles with substantial mentioning of Aliens
| Owen Williams, James Dyer, Nick de Semlyen, Alin: The Colonial Marines, in: Empire, nr. 245 (November), 2009 pp. 112-117 |
Reviews
| Matthew Leyland, Something in our spaceship, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 2, 2004 pp. 68 (DVD review) |
| Ian Nathan, Alien Anthology, in: Empire, nr. 257 (November), 2010 pp. 146-147 (DVD review) |